Comments on: Episode 158: The Tom Keeler Murder Case

By: Smuggins

Smuggins — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:55:30 +0000

This was like listening to an improv comedy set with the theme of ‘Dragnet’.

Everybody’s got business!

By: Bill Teeple

Bill Teeple — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 19:40:49 +0000

I wonder if listeners hearing this originally were as amused by the “characters” in this story as I was? The Runyonesque cop was my clear favorite.

Alexander Courage was a surprise, although I knew that he worked some radio programs before moving to TV. Fun fact: he did not “sing” the Star Trek theme, but he did perform the whooshing sounds you hear during the opening credits. He left the series after scoring the pilots and two episodes because he was perturbed by Roddenberry’s poorly written lyrics to the Star Trek Theme. He spent a couple of season working on Lost In Space with his old friend: John Williams. Not a science fiction fan at all, he referred to most science fiction as marvelous malarkey.

By: Dave Potts

Dave Potts — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 03:38:19 +0000

I voted “There may be some antiquated moments, but overall it’s great” for this, but only because you don’t have a right-in-the-middle “overall it’s OK” option. The dialogue and performances were entertaining, but the plot was nothing exceptional — neither bad nor great, just OK. Maybe this was just an atypically unexciting episode, but I didn’t discern any reason for the Facebook group to choose this as the series they most wanted to hear. It was a perfectly OK way to spend a half-hour, but it doesn’t inspire me to hunt down other episodes of the series. As cop shows go, it was no Dragnet.

(And maybe I’ve watched and listened to too much Dragnet, but what kind of police department has a detective investigate solo, instead of paired with a partner?)

By: David Feldmann

David Feldmann — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:44:59 +0000

It’s not Johnny Dollar but it’s damn good.